"The authorities say they have no choice but to move forward and keep up. Produce more and more, faster and faster. In reality, technological #progress has got out of hand. It's out of our control. And we should be the ones adapting to its frenetic pace. The ecological crisis has become a pretext for increasing global competition, the technological race and social and environmental dumping".

"What green growth offers us as a 'solution' is ever more markets and technology, […] a frantic quest for efficiency and rationalisation, with no regard for sensitivity or the quest for harmonious relations with others and with nature."

"With green industry, new tax credits and guarantees will be granted. Not 12 billion euros for workers and pensions, but hundreds of billions for big business."

Hélène Tordjman (in fr) : https://reporterre.net/Helene-Tordjman-M-Macron-est-enferme-dans-son-delire-productiviste

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“The idea of effecting decentralization while maintaining technical progress is purely utopian.”
~ Jacques Ellul

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"Until degrowth becomes an urgent and imperative watchword, industrial capitalism will continue to interpret the demands of social movements as technical challenges".

"We cannot be satisfied with improving the energy efficiency of data storage while Internet traffic increases exponentially. We cannot continue to deploy satellites en masse on the assumption that some of them will provide a better understanding of deforestation..."

~ Andreas Malm in "How to sabotage a pipeline"

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“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood… Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behaviour.”

― Herbert Marcuse

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"Reclaiming the use of digital devices at the receiving end does nothing to change the whole technical system. Digital technologies cannot be reclaimed, because they are the fruit of a mass society, of a society of experts, constituted of domination and exploitation, of complex and gigantic infrastructures from which citizens can only be dispossessed."

Julia Laïnae, Nicolas Alep in "Contre l'alternumérisme", 2020

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"Technique is no longer some uncertain and incomplete intermediary between humanity and the natural milieu. The latter is totally dominated and utilized (in Western society). Technique now constitutes a fabric of its own, replacing nature."

– Jacques Ellul in “Recherche pour une Ethique dans une société technicienne,” Morale et Enseignement, 1983, page 7

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